On 5/2/2019 6:47 AM, Nita Rae Sanders wrote:
I am tacitly suggesting that these facilities be tagged as
healthcare=emergency_department, hospital=no, with an optional (and
likely present) operator=*, plus the usual addressing information.
amenity shall not be used.
That would both convey that they are an emergency department, that
they are not a full hospital, and who they are associated with.
Comments ?
Thanks for your efforts on this! Comments --
* healthcare=emergency_department is simple and relatively unambiguous.
However, because I've been contemplating a healthcare=department tag, I
fear this could trigger a trend of healthcare=*_department tags instead
(=radiology_department, =surgery_department, etc) which seems a little
backward given the current trend towards using namespace prefixes for
details of this level.
...that said, as mentioned earlier, I'm not really convinced that
healthcare=department + healthcare:speciality=emergency captures the
true importance of these standalone facilities. So I'm not arguing for
that either. (ie, I know we're supposed to ignore rendering, but *if*
healthcare=department were ever to render on the default map I'd expect
it would just be a red dot like healthcare=yes. I'd want the standalone
ER to at least have the same prominence as healthcare=centre.)
I don't have an alternate suggestion at the moment, so I'm open to
healthcare=emergency_department if nothing better arises.
* hospital=no strikes me as unnecessary -- and even potentially
confusing. Because this is not the usual way of indicating whether a
feature is a hospital, I can easily imagine a mapper thinking it means
"is this a hospital-run facility?" rather than "is this itself hospital?"
* regarding amenity, I actually think you might want to consider adding
the amenity=doctors tag, at least transitionally. It's not strictly
wrong, it's well within the traditional use of the tag (which, in the
pre-healthcare=* era, has been basically "anything smaller than a
hospital") and it will render. (Yes, I'm suggesting tagging for the
renderer!! Get the tar and feathers! But it's not *incorrect* tagging,
and I feel that showing map users the nearest emergency room,
potentially saving lives, is worth the small ideological compromise.)
All that aside, tag them in a way that makes sense to you, with the
understanding that you or someone else may retag them when consensus is
reached on this issue. And the usual caveats of "don't expect it to
render until it becomes widely used" except doubly so with the uncertain
schedule of support of healthcare=* tags.
J
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